This was actually your reply where I thought we agreed that SQL Native Client was a problem for VFP.
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>>If I use ODBC ( the one that isn't sql native client ) when I create the ODBC connection, everything works without casting. But SQL Native Client seems to either have a bug or an 'undocumented feature' <s>
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>>So this is known behavior of SPT and varchar(max) and SQL Native Client?
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>>Is it documented or mentioned anywhere? Sure made me crazy trying to figure out why some my views worked and some didn't in retrieving memo data.
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>I documented it on forums for a few times at least:) I noticed the dicrepencies first with XML datatype, then OLEDB driver and passing byte arrays from .Net (now in list of corrected bugs of SP2-but I don't use SP2) then varchar(max). Bug seems to be within VFP not the driver itself. Try with a nonVFP environment and it correctly returns the data.
>Cetin
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